What is a Ellipsis Punctuation & Where and How to use it?

Question

The question states it all. What is a Ellipsis? Where to use it? How to use it? When to use it? Why do we use it? Please give a full sentence for each question and you will be awarded point's I Need the answer's ASAP. Please!? Thanks!

Answer 1

An ellipsis is three dots, or periods, in a row. They can denote a trailing off of a thought, or indicate missing words in a quote.



"Hey guys! What if we... never mind."



If the trailing off comes at the end of a sentence, the ellipsis is followed by a period (four dots at the end).



"Do you think we could...."



If you are trimming down a quote, you use an ellipsis to show something is missing. For example, suppose a politician says, "My colleagues, whom I greatly admire, have decided to vote no." You might trim that down to: "My colleagues [...] have decided to vote no."



Note: For quotes, you use brackets to indicate something you've added - the ellipsis - while the ellipsis represents something missing from the original.



An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause longer than a comma. A classic is when Dracula says, "I don't drink... wine."

Answer 2

An ellipsis is a set of three dots etc. indicating an omission. Below is an example:



One instance of such recognition, drawn from the close of the chapter 'On Wages', must suffice:



Happily these [poor] laws have been in operation during a period of progressive prosperity, ... when an increase in population would be naturally called for. But if our progress should become more slow; if we should attain the stationary state, ... then will the pernicious nature of these laws become more manifest and alarming....

(Ricardo [1821] 1951: 108--9)



The above 'inset quotation' from Ricardo contains three ellipses (where portions of the quotation have been omitted, leaving only material pertinent to the point being made). The final ellipsis is followed by a period.



An ellipsis is also used ... rather as one would use a dash ... to add an 'aside' in a chatty communication.

Answer 3

Ellipsis is a punctuation mark. When typewriters were used, it was indicated by three periods in a row. But in printing and electronic media it is a single character that looks like three tiny periods (…).



Use it to indicate that some part of a quotation is left out. "And Judas went and hanged himself. … Go thou and do likewise." (That is a facetious example, but when you leave some irrelevant stuff out of a quotation, use the ellipsis mark.)



You might use this in an academic paper when you wanted to use the first and last sentence of a paragraph (the topic and concluding sentences) to indicate that you left the middle of the paragraph out.





In dialogue (usually in fiction) ellipsis is used to indicate a pause or trailing off speech. "Now, Mark, … oh. I forgot what I was going to say."



There is also grammatical ellipsis. Grammatical ellipsis is when one or more words are left out of a sentence. The missing words are usually replaced by a comma. The words left out are easily deduced from context.



Jim went to the market, and I, home (The missing word is "went.")



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